Senior Rotational Occupational Therapist

Rotational Occupational Therapist, Band 6

The vacancy is for an experienced Occupational Therapist to join a mixed rotation at Whittington Health. Previous experience of working in the acute setting is desirable and prior experience/a working knowledge of the UK healthcare system.

The successful candidate will have excellent communication, be organised and ready to face the challenge of working in a fast paced environment.

This role is fixed term until 31st March 2027 with potential of extension

The Rotations Available Are

Whittington Health NHS Trust

• Orthopaedics
• Long length of stay rehabilitation ward
• Care of Older People
• Respiratory
• START Team – Admission Avoidance/ Early Discharge Service
• Islington Locality rehab team
• Hand Therapy

North London Foundation Trust

• Older adult’s Dementia specialist ward – Garnett ward at the Highgate East Mental Health Centre

Camden & North West London NHS Foundation Trust

• Camden Rapid Access Services – Urgent Community Response, Discharge to Assess and Hospital @ Home
• St Pancras Rehabilitation Unit (SPRU) – Neuro-pathology rehabilitation
• SPRU – Musculoskeletal / Multi-pathology rehabilitation
• SPRU – Pathway 1, Early Supported Discharge Pathway

The Post Holder Will

Undertake Occupational Therapy assessment of patients with often complex physical, psychological and social presentations. With advanced clinical reasoning skills provide a treatment plan and deliver appropriate interventions .

Be responsible for managing own caseload and in some cases work without direct supervision.

Supervise Band 5 rotational staff, students and support staff and provide therapy related information advice to other health care professionals in the specific clinical area.

Undertake activities which contribute to own continuing professional development which may include, audit, evidence based learning and quality improvement projects to further own and teams clinical practice.

On occasion, lead on the implementation of specific changes to practice or contribute to development of service protocols.

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff.

We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief.

The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Christopher Harvey Job title: Clinical Lead OT Email address: christopher.harvey6@nhs.net Telephone number: 0207 288 5562